Due to a need for intersectional anti-racism training of board members, we are working in partnership with BiNet USA's Faith Cheltenham and Juba Kalamka (former BABN Board Member) to bring diversity training to the leadership team. A Large part of choosing folks to help train board members is their acknowledgment of bisexuality as a valid sexuality and identity which many anti-racism groups still do not acknowledge in their literature or stance. Which is troubling to say the least. By engaging in anti-racism and pursuing our work in anti-racist ways we can engage in intersectionality both collectively and individually.

Continue BABN’s existence and life, and maintain or improve its health

We attempted to both advocate for our group and our leadership as Pride Grand Marshals this year. Kin Folkz, our former Co-Director, was nominated to the ballot and was elected a 2018 Pride Grand Marshal. Though Kin Folkz is no longer active as a leader with BABN, we look forward to seeing their contingent and now know that there will be at least two bi+ contingents in SF Pride this year, an improvement over last year. We will have a contingent and are actively looking for members to march with us with this year's theme, "Generations of Strength" (sign up to march with us here). Our spot is paid for out of the funds raised by Kirsten Berry, our past fundraiser and former driver. Kirsten was very proud of contributing her skills in driving, moderation and crowdfunding to the org during our rebuilding and we are also very proud of her work.

Get a Board together within one year

The current members of the organizing group are Allegra Hirschman (BiBQ), Amy Larsen (Chasing Amy), Jen Davidson, Moria Merriweather and Martin Rawlings-Fein. Faith Cheltenham (VP of BiNet USA) is applying to be a settled board member currently and we are so happy to have her on our team. We have a simple board application link for anyone who would like to join us in organizing our community.

Anne Killpack, Kai MacTane, Kin Folks, and Kirsten Berry have stepped down for various reasons but their service over the last few years with organizing our SF Pride contingents, managing our social media, creating bridges to East and South Bay communities and managing our "Holographic Board" is greatly appreciated and we hope that they have great success in all their future endeavors.

​Staff: We would need a larger budget to pay any staff and considered a stipend intern as of the last meeting. But having met only 30% of our fundraising goal we are unable to commit money to regular paid staff currently.

We are working on a new logo and looking for a designer who can establish a design aesthetic for our site and brand. In large part due to the work that Jen and Kirsten put into developing a request for proposal (RFP) in which we were able to articulate our needs. Have some other events, besides just Pride and establish a "nest egg"

Space Needs: We are renting room 203, the small room, for a Thursday night drop in group at the SF LGBT Center - $24 -$48 a month depending on the need. We are also working with the Bob Ross Senior Center at Openhouse, thanks to Lani Ka'ahumanu, to have a free intergenerational group. We need to recruit and train a social media specialist to fill in for Kirsten, our former social media admin, and to build up our Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, and Instagram presence.

Growing the Bi-BQ and/or Bi Visibility Day events are at the top of our list this year and a large portion of our raised funds will go to securing items for the upcoming, Pride ($325) Bi-BQ (In-kind-people power) and further off Bi+ Visibility Week in September with a fun event, or events, that we can all enjoy. It is not just Pride this year :)

Thanks to Moria, BABN was represented at the Santa Clara County bi flag raising for celebrate bisexuality week, in September of 2017.

Increase social media presence and outreach

We started using our Twitter, Facebook pages regularly, standardized our Chat list group to align with our Facebook Chat group and many other social outreach tools using Kirsten's admin know how and social media skills.

Fix the website​​

Kai came up with a plan to modernize the page, possibly get our old url back and bring us to the 21st Century.

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